Schumann: Complete Lieder Volume 6

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This sixth disc in the Naxos series of the complete Schumann Lieder features the 26 songs of Myrthen (Myrtles), which date from February of that year.

Robert Schumann’s literary interests influenced his choice of the poems he used for his songs, many of which were composed in a burst of activity during the ‘Year of Song’ 1840. Dedicated to his beloved Clara (myrtles were used for bridal wreaths), this album of exquisite songs explores themes of devotion, longing, loneliness, matrimony and maternity. His Six Poems and Requiem of August 1850 set mournful texts by Lenau, concluding with an anonymous Medieval poem ‘Héloïse's lament for Abelard’.

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Robert Schumann: Myrthen, Op. 25

No. 1. Widmung

No. 2. Freisinn

No. 3. Der Nussbaum

No. 4. Jemand

No. 5. Lieder aus dem Schenkenbuch im Divan No. 1

No. 6. Lieder aus dem Schenkenbuch im Divan No. 2

No. 7. Die Lotosblume

No. 8. Talismane

No. 9. Lied der Suleika

No. 10. Die Hochlander-Witwe

No. 11. Lieder der Braut aus dem Liebesfruhling No. 1

No. 12. Lieder der Braut aus dem Liebesfruhling No. 2

No. 13. Hochlanders Abschied

No. 14. Hochlandisches Wiegenlied

No. 15. Aus den hebraischen Gesangen

No. 16. Ratsel

No. 17. 2 Venetianische Lieder No. 1, "Leis' rudern hier"

No. 18. 2 Venetianische Lieder No. 2, "Wenn durch die Piazetta"

No. 19. Hauptmanns Weib

No. 20. Weit, weit

No. 21. Was will die einsame Trane?

No. 22. Niemand

No. 23. Im Westen

No. 24. Du bist wie eine Blume

No. 25. Aus den ostlichen Rosen

No. 26. Zum Schluss

Robert Schumann: 6 Gedichte und Requiem, Op. 90

No. 1. Lied eines Schmiedes

No. 2. Meine Rose

No. 3. Kommen und Scheiden

No. 4. Die Sennin

No. 5. Einsamkeit

No. 6. Der schwere Abend

No. 7. Requiem

Reviews

September 2011

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“Bauer has a meaty, sizable voice and brings real engagement to the text.”